New aspects of chitin chemistry and enzymology / Riccardo Muzzarelli -- Role of chitinase in nature / Neetu Dahiya -- Chitin and chitinase in the human evolution / Andrea Giansanti, Fabio Mecozzi, and Salvatore Musumeci -- Chitinase in fungal and bacterial sepsis / Helen Michelakakis and Ioannis Labadaridis -- The origin and genetics of human chitinases / Rolf Boot ... [et al.] -- Polymorphism of chitinases in human populations / Andrea Angius -- The gaucher cell and chitotriosidase, the phagocyte chitinase / J.M. Aerts & R.G. Boot -- Chitinase activity in atherosclerosis disease / Ana Cenarro and Fernando Civeira -- Chitotriosidase activity in juvenile idiopathic arthritis and juvenile sarcoidosis / Juergen Brunner -- Chitinase in neurological diseases / Stefano Sotgiu -- Chitin in Alzheimer disease / Luis F. Gonzalez Cuyar, Rudy J. Castellani -- Chitin and chitinase in anticancer research / Xing Q. Pan -- YKL-40 in inflammation, tissue remodelling, and cancer / Julia Johansen -- Chitotriosidase in patients with beta-thalassemia / Rita Barone -- Chitotriosidase in the plasmodium, anopheles, and human interaction / Salvatore Musumeci and Maria Musumeci -- Role of amcase in the allergic ocular pathologies / Salvatore Musumeci and Maria Musumeci -- Chitinase in the immune response / Maria Musumeci and Salvatore Musumeci -- The role of chitin and chitinases in asthma / Max A. Seibold and Esteban Gonzalez Burchard -- Chitinase like lectins in humans / Julia Kzhyshkowska -- Role of amcase in the gastric digestion of chitin / Maurizio G. Paoletti ... [et al.] -- Role of chitinase in gastroenterology / Emiko Mizoguchi and Mayumi Kawada -- Chitinase inhibitors and its significance in biology / Shohei Sakuda -- Recognition of chitin and chitin-derived chitooligosaccharides in nature / Franco Falcone.